COL Anthony Zupancic

COL Tony Zupancic is the director of the English Division in the Department of English and World Languages. He graduated from West Point in 1997 and was commissioned as an Armor Officer. In 2006, he earned a master’s degree in English from North Carolina State University and completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Tennessee in 2015. 

He has served at Fort Stewart in 4-64 Armor as a Tank Platoon Leader and Battalion Adjutant and at Fort Knox in 2-81 Armor as a Company Commander. He has also served as a contracting team leader at United States Southern Command and as Deputy Chief of Contracting at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. 

COL Zupancic specializes in American Literature and Classical Rhetoric. He teaches courses in literary methodologies, literary theory, American literature, classical literature, The Novel, and The Literature of Heroes and Heroism, among others. He recently published a monograph (2003) that explores the relationship between rhetorical education and character development in the late republic and early Roman Empire, titled The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means. Currently, his scholarly interest is in imperial subjectivities, how imperial subjects are created, maintained, and radicalized.